We started by telling the story of El Batallón de San Patricio(“Saint Patrick’s Battalion”), aka the San Patricios, Irish ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

One-party rule by Ulster unionists, Watkins writes, left Catholics with “few jobs, poor housing and threadbare resources.” In ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men cut down the courageous "Irish brigade ... He distinguished himself in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and ...

served with honor in the crucible of the Civil War and won fame and valor among. Theodore Roosevelt's famous Rough Riders, they were rough riders by some estimates more than 2000 Irish American ...